Microsoft researchers are working on a new browser called Gazelle which it promises will have some impressive new features and capabilities.
The firm released a research paper late last week, saying that the new browser would offer significant security improvements compared to other browsers, including Internet Explorer.
Microsoft Corp on Sunday announced the creation of a website, Elevate America, aimed at improving access to job training tools.
The site, http://www.microsoft.com/ElevateAmerica, provides resources to help individuals gain the technical skills needed for acquiring jobs, the world's largest software company said. The economy has shed 3.6 million jobs since the recession began in December 2007 with about half of the decline occurring in the past three months, recent Labor Department data showed.
Although most of the attention these days is focused on Windows 7, Microsoft is getting closer to releasing the next update for Windows Vista.
This week Microsoft offered some technical testers a near-final "release candidate" version of the Windows Vista Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2. The company did not say when that version might be made publicly available.
As we try to figure out the future of the Cloud, one thing is assured: developers will drive both deployment and consumption approaches. As is common to so many other major software shifts, developers lead, regardless of what vendors want the market to look like.
With the exception of Amazon and Google, neither of whom are IT stalwarts, there hasn't been much to write home about from the obvious big vendors. IBM, Sun, Dell, HP and Microsoft have all made proclamations with only Microsoft offering much in the way of a system to test-drive, let alone deploy.
Beating someone over Xbox Live usually results in nothing more than a string of expletives, but some users are reporting that they're now getting kicked off the network by sore losers using a denial-of-service attack, which bombards your Internet connection with bogus data until it drops out.
Worse still, hackers are selling DOS on demand to disgruntled players, the BBC News reported today. That means anyone with a few bucks and a lack of morals can attack players who are simply too good at Street Fighter IV.
Talk about adding insult to injury. Apparently Microsoft has inadvertently overpaid severance to some of its recently laid off employees, and is now asking for some of the money back. It’s unclear how many of the 1,400 employees laid off last month were affected, but we’ve confirmed that it wasn’t a single isolated incident (we’ve contacted Microsoft for a response). We’re also hearing that some employees may have been underpaid as well.
Microsoft has announced it is to release new updates for PCs running the Windows 7 beta next week, whilst at the same time seeding the Release Candidate build of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 to a select group of testers.
In a posting on The Windows Blog, Windows 7 manager Brandon LeBlanc said the firm would be releasing up to five test updates on February 24, which “will allow us to test and verify our ability to deliver and mange the updating of Windows 7”.
Speaking of what Microsoft is and isn’t sharing with Windows 7 testers, starting on February 24, Microsoft is planning to roll out test updates for Beta 1 users.
As explained on the Microsoft Update Product Team blog, these updates are simply designed to test the Windows servicing infrastructure. They won’t provide any new features, fixes or functionality for Windows 7.
If you’ve ever had your mobile stolen, software giant Microsoft may now be able to empathise with you. Its prototype mobile phone dubbed the “iPhone killer” has been stolen from the pocket of a top executive hours after the handset’s launch was announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Microsoft bosses now fear that hackers could dissect the highly confidential Windows Mobile 6.5 software and leak the information on the internet. There is also talk that this was a deliberate act of industrial espionage.
Microsoft is trying to keep a few more bucks in IT pockets by holding the line on some support pricing. The company had planned a normal increase in custom support pricing, an enterprise customer option aimed at older products. That increase won't happen.
Microsoft didn't offer a reason, but I have two. First, Redmond gets that the economy is rough, and is doing the right thing. But this might -- just might -- have more to do with Vista. XP is the preferred enterprise desktop OS and it's near the end of its supported life.
